Tavestin Ampoules
PRESCRIPTION
Possessing an antiallergic effect, it reduces the permeability of blood vessels and capillaries, inhibits exudation and the formation of edema, reduces itching, and has an anticholinergic effect.
Manual
1 ampoule (2 ml) contains:
- The active substance is clemastine fumarate (equivalent to 2 mg of clemastine);
- excipients – sorbitol, ethanol, propylene glycol, sodium citrate dihydrate, water for injection.
- prevention or treatment of allergic and pseudoallergic reactions (including with the administration of contrast agents, blood transfusions, diagnostic use of histamine);
- angioedema, anaphylactic or anaphylactoid shock (as an additional remedy).
Intramuscularly or intravenously slowly (over 2-3 minutes).
Adults: 2 mg (2 ml), that is, the contents of 1 ampoule, 2 times a day (morning and evening). For prophylactic purposes, the drug is administered intravenously in a slow stream (over 2-3 minutes or more) at a dose of 2 mg, immediately before the possible occurrence of an anaphylactic reaction or a reaction in response to the use of histamine. The drug solution can be further diluted with isotonic sodium chloride solution or 5% glucose solution in a ratio of 1:5.
Children: 0.025 mg/kg per day IM, divided into 2 injections. Contraindicated for children under 1 year of age.